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April 18, 2010

I get a lot of email from people who say that they wish they could sew clothing or they'd like to try. I tell them it's not as hard as you might think but I suspect my claims are unconvincing.

I'd like to help.

Would any of you be interested in making a dress with me?

I would post a detailed diagram of a couple steps of the dress every day. You would have the same pattern and 'make' the dress with me as the week went on. By Friday, we should have a finished dress. If a dress was too hard we could start with something simpler. We could use one of the 'free' patterns off of the BurdaStyle website. If a dress sounds like something you might be interested in, I thought this one below was a good start!

Let me know if any of you might be interested. If a large enough amount of people would like to try this, I'll give it a go. And if you got stuck along the way you could leave me comments and I could try to answer them for you.

What a great idea! I want to stard my adventure with sewing, but I have no teacher so it would be difficult. I would love to make this dress with you :) but unfortunately I can't sewing till 30.04 cause I've got some exams and I must learn :/. But if not this time I will come onside next time. And I'm totally pro this idea!

Any other week and I'd be in! I've been meaning to make this dress for awhile anyway. But hopefully (fingers crossed due to the whole volcano thing) I'll be in Paris this week! If you do it, I'll still make the dress later following your posts!-Adrianna from Crafterhours

I sew already, but I'd love to join in with you and the rest of the group and you sew projects. It would be great to see what people come up with. You could throw up a Mr. Linky to the post on Friday so we could all share it and go see everyone else's work! Fun idea.

Tha sounds like a great idea. I would love to make a dress that fits me well. But i don't think i can devote a few hours every evening...but if you blog about it...i can always catch up at my own speed.

Such a gorgeous dress! I would love to attempt to sew it for me but I'm afraid with my curves it would not look so flattering.That is why I stick to baby clothes-no lumps and bumps to account for!But I'd love to see everyone else's creations!XD

Count me in too please!I have been sewing kids clothes for years and I think it was a bout time I was brave enough to make something for myself. And it would be so much nicer to hold someones hand along the way.

Oh my goodness! I had downloaded this pattern, but I really haven't had success sewing clothing before, so I never made it. This would be perfect. Count me in, and I PROMISE to email pictures of the finished project! Will you give us the details first to have time to buy supplies?

I'd love to. Would you be able to give some suggestions on finding the fabric online? My closest fabric store within an hour or so is a tiny little JoAnn's and that doesn't really cut it for sewing a great little dress.

I think this sounds fun!!! I'm an experienced sewer but time can be an issue for me because of little ones. How about leaving a few days in between each step (e.g., 2-3 days) in case sewing can't happen each day? It could be called the "A Frock by the 2nd Friday" dress!

I'd love to do this one - it's such a cute dress. I'm not sure that I'll be able to follow along at your pace without looking at the fabric requirements. But I love dresses for summer! And I'd love to actually be able to finish one in a week!

Oh my goodness! This would be fabulous! I really would love to join you in this :) I have been interested in sewing some clothes and I've been looking for some patterns but I've yet to make the jump. This would be a perfect way to start!!!

I love this idea! And the dress is so pretty. Will you be trying this again over the summer? I am in the midst of my last few weeks of a grad school semester and so just don't have time right now to attempt this. But this summer I would love to!